The Register has posted another article about the slow function in Vista when it is trying to copy or delete data from one location to another.

Adrian Procter, one of the readers of The Register, writes, “I have been experiencing slow copying ever since I ‘upgraded’ to Vista earlier this year, particularly from USB keys & drives.” He tried to create a CD with 168 MB of pictures but the operating system told him that it would take 131 years for the process to complete. He also sent in a screen shot and users can check it out by visiting the source link below.

Some people report that the first service pack speeds up the process.

Source: The Register

A news has been released by various tech sites that if a user has an open Windows Media Player while playing World of Warcraft, then they will experience shorter loading times of the game.

Blizzard, the game’s developer, is currently looking into the anomaly to try to find an explanation on why this phenomena occur.

The news first appeared on WoW’s European forums but players started talking about it on the American forum section of the site as well.

The speed increase was noticeable specifically on the high-traffic sections of the game according to the author of the blog entry at wired.com

Source: Wired

A Pennsylvania man was caught possessing child pornography by a Circuit City computer technician. The technician called the police who seized the computer and arrested the man when he returned to pick it up. With child porn as evidence on the mans computer, it should be an open and shut case right? Wrong.

As you probably know, a policeman needs a warrant to search your house for any illegal items. This warrant allows the policeman to obtain the evidence in a legal manner. The big question is, was the child porn evidence in this case obtained legally? Should the technician have been looking though the files in the first place? Read on.
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A signature update was released yesterday by Kaspersky Lab. The problem is that it misdiagnoses Windows Explorer as a file with a virus.

Many people were affected and some of them had set their anti-virus software to auto-delete infected files so that one of the core Windows component was deleted which is explorer.exe.

One person reported, “A false positive caused the deletion of explorer.exe. It would have only caused problems for companies performing their network scan during the hours that the dodgy update was present - which included me, unfortunately. I was working out of hours to fix the previous Kaspersky update problem. I finally finished sorting it all at 5am.”

Source: Channel Register

eWeek.com has released a report that brand new Hewlett Packard notebook computers has a flaw in its built-in patch management utility.

The person who discovered it was a Polish security researcher and he plans to issue an alert that contains the exploit code so that he can demonstrate the impact of the flaw.

The bug let an attacker launch remote attacks on HP notebooks which are running Internet Explorer.

eWeek notes that in their article that this is the third time that HP had this kind of problem this year. The two previous occurrences were one week ago and six months ago.

Source: eWeek

Dead Pixel buddy is a small, standalone, freeware tool designed to help you detect dead pixels on LCD screens. There are many types of dead pixels. Some dead pixels are only visible when the screen is totally black, white or a certain color passes over it. Dead Pixel Buddy has buttons which you can press that will fill the screen with a certain color allowing you to detect them easier. It also has a time cycle feature where the fullscreen color cycles between the colors so you can test all colors in one go.
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PC World has released a report that the release candidate for last service pack for Windows XP is now available to everyone starting on this evening.

According to the article, the service pack was only available to several thousand users.

The download size is 580 MB but when users use the Windows Update function, they will get a smaller size version which is approximately 70 MB.

“Windows XP SP3 does not bring significant portions of Windows Vista functionality to Windows XP,” said a spokeswoman from Microsoft.

Source: PC World

Many tech sites have reported that the latest “Patch Tuesday” update caused problems on Internet Explorer. The problem includes unable to connect to the internet or open the program itself.

This affects both versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer.

The wired.com blog entry found a solution in Microsoft’s Vista forum. It suggests that users should make their homepage be a blank page. Then, they need to reboot their computers. The last step is to change the homepage to the one that the user want.

Users can also uninstall the last update which is labeled as MS07-069.

Source: Wired

One of our Technibble readers sent us an email and asked us at what point while repairing a computer do you decide it is time for a format? How do you determine wether you should keep spending more time trying to repair the system or just give up and wipe it clean? Heres our answer.
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There have been a handful of dodgy computer repair companies in the news these days. In these reports there are many shady or inexperienced computer technicians and they got what they deserved. However, keep in mind that these so called “news” reports are after ratings just like any fictional show .They will happily misreport or cut out critical parts of information to make the show more entertaining. In this article, I analyse the reports to determine whether the technician is dodgy, inexperienced or the media is just trying to make them look bad.
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